Cooker.



A. B. THOMPSON.'

`COUKER APPLICATION msn 1AH.11.19|3.

Patented Dec. 18,191?

2 SHEETS-SHEET l I LZ g5 WITNESSES ATTORNE\ R. THOMPSON.

COOKER.

APPLICATION min JAN. l l. 1913.

2 SHEETS--SHEET 2.

INVENTOR L' JM /fwu/fm Y BV ATTORNEY iniiiirsni Lesoeei.

To aZZ whom i may concern:

Be it nomi that ALBERT E. .iiioMPsoN, e citizen of the United Saes, residing at San Jose, in the county of Senta. Giura and Sai'e of California, have invenied eert-ain new and useful Improvements in Cookers, oi which the following is a specieaion.

My invention relaes to cookers used. in ti e canning art.

The objee of .my invenion is toyproride cooker of exis nsii'e cau-pain to give the required time of cook", and which lends itself perfecly io Varying this time without changing the speed of lie .uieeiiine, or altering its temperature.

iy inveniion consists in the novel cooker which I shall now fuily describe by reference io the accompanying draiifings, in Winch-- Figure is a top View of my cooker. the

box being' broken away in. parkt, to show the Z is a vertical section of cooker.

"Pig: 3 is an end View of the same, the hof; being in section to shoiiv #lie interior parts. is a sectional detail, enlarged, on line @eMac of Fig. l, showing cair'ieefi.. i is the lieuiing box. Heat is supplied by any suitable medium, suoli, example, as hot water, live steam or not air. For the sake of illustration, herein show a steam coil 2 which may, if perforated, admi live steam to ine box, or if imporforate may heat the air, or may lient l water in the box. Neither the means for heating. nor the dium employed, forms any part of iny Vention, and description.

inwill therefore need no furiier 3 is a drain from the box eontroled by a cock e. Within lie box l are fixed ille @ross bers 5, here shown equidisant points. To these cross leurs is secured the iixefl guiderail G, which is in The sliope of a helix. it is. in its bes form, a bar or' T-sec'tion, secured by itswirni portions io vthe cross bars 5, so that its leg portion projects inwardly. The helical rail 6 has sucii a pitch ihat ,its coils are separated by :i distance sufiicient to supporfj the cans lengthwise upon the. opposing arm. porftions of adjacent coils, ithereby forming a spiral racii or path in which the cans may loe advanced in continuous helicai course in Fig. 3 as :it four Speccation of Reet-ers .Patent compac dimensions which new' eroeiess luis a suiiioienily Ine* Application. filed 'amiary l1, 1913. Serial No. ill-1.6175.

frozen 'iieir enranco io eens losing supporte@ of tile iseebicn reil an ifirogiess by the le@ portiof- .shaft which lies heli". l rail 6. This sli. roizution iu suitable bear.q und. said shaft, uti ends or heus i@ oi. which securei enci in. eine general line 7 31 '9 Ln a sosia, needs anu is i.,

l l' .L i. .vincn remixes wir i i irael oath or pocket for @le cans i.; ovided, saiii parli being bordered eii'teioriv by the arm porions and the ieg' porc the lielioal rail. 45 .and interioriy by iii@ portions and leg-portions of ilse rcel re' le follows liut ii." u can be ini'oouceii, say at lie upper portion o3?. Jdie machine, i' its support upon the urni-porions of aiija cent reel rails il, at one end of iie reci, if.' will upon the rotation of said reel ne our ried around by the leg of one or" said. reils ll, ami will at he seine time be advanced by the contac of its ends niii zlie .ieg of the fixed helix rail 6, unil, passing its quarter of revolution'it changes by gravity its support to the arni-porrions of the helix rail, which support continues through iis lower arc oi revolution. uniil upon. its

advantage is, te be no'o es 

